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Sarah "Sally" C. Word[1]

Female Abt 1803 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Sarah "Sally" C. Word 
    Born Abt 1803  Halifax County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died Yes, date unknown  Halifax Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I547449846  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2018 

    Family Meades Anderson Kirby,   b. Abt 1790, Halifax County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1884, Prob. Halifax Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 94 years) 
    Married 22 Dec 1823  Halifax County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    • Children of Meades and Sallie Kirby;
      Elizabeth Kirby (-)
      Jeremiah Kerby (1824-)
      Martha R Kirby (1831-)
      Mary Kirby (1833-)
      Sarah T Kirby (1834-)
      Ben W Kirby (1839-1910)
      Frances H Kirby (1843-)
    Children 
     1. Mary Ann Kirby,   b. Est 1825, Halifax County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Elizabeth Kirby,   b. Est 1826, Halifax County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Jeremiah Kirby,   b. Abt 1830, Halifax County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location
    +4. Martha Frances Kirby,   b. 1824, Halifax County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1911, Halifax Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years)
    +5. Sarah Virginia 'Sally' Kirby,   b. 1834, Halifax County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1904, Muhlenberg Co., KY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)
    +6. Benjamin Word Kirby,   b. 11 Jul 1839, Halifax Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Sep 1910, Person, N. Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)
     7. Frances H. Kirby,   b. Est 1843, Halifax County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1850, Halifax Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 7 years)
     8. Nancy "Nannie" Graves Kirby,   b. Abt 1845, Halifax Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 22 Sep 2018 
    Family ID F518494808  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Carolyn Graves Carter, d/o William George 'Buck' Carter and Elizabeth Patience Turner, married Benjamin W. Kirby 28 Nov 1859 Halifax County, Virginia (MB3/13): Benjamin's Sister, Nancy Graves Kirby, married Carolyn's brother, William G. Carter, Jr. (here again two brother's marry two sisters)
      Nancy Graves Kirby is the d/o Meades Anderson Kirby (1800-), and Sallie C Word (1803-)
      Children of Meades and Sallie Kirby;
      Elizabeth Kirby (-)
      Jeremiah Kerby (1824-)
      Martha R Kirby (1831-)
      Mary Kirby (1833-)
      Sarah T Kirby (1834-)
      Ben W Kirby (1839-1910)
      Frances H Kirby (1843-)

  • Sources 
    1. [S40] Will.
      1782 Will of Richard Kirby; Halifax, VA (speculated no longer [Parents: Richard Kirby
      Alice Anderson]) ancestor of Benjamin who married Buck Carter's daughter nearly one hundred years later.....These families have been aligned and intermarried for over 100 years. (Note the Witness names and the f/o Benjamin who is Meads Anderson)

      RICHARD KIRBY Will. ., ,
      "...being indisposed in body but in perfect mind and memory..."
      My beloved wife Sarah Kirby to remain on the plantation whereon I now live without interruption & be allowed a comfortable maintenance during widowhood & in case she remove from sd place I lend to her 100 ac. during her natural life it lying & being in aforesd county on Burches Creek, the upper end of tract I have there, also a feather bed & furniture, it being the said bed left her by her grandfather, also one good horse & saddle & bridle, a good cow & calf, a good sow & pigs, 2 ews & lambs, a trunk, & personality. To my three sons Joseph, Richard & William Kirby my low grounds on Dan by equal division, Viz. Joseph to have the upper end adjoining Lawson's line & Richard to have the lower end joining Boyd's line & William Kirby to have tbe middle part Joseph to have the part out joining Bird's line, etc. To my two sons Richard & William Kirby my tract on Burches Creek in Halifax by equal' division Richard the upper half & W~lliam the lower on the Creek. To son Joseph my smiths tools. To son Richard my copper kittle. To son William my large iron pott. The rest of my personal estate to be equally divided between my three sons Joseph, Richard & William Kirby. If either of sd sons die before they come of age 21 yrs: the surviving brothers to divide the land & other bequeathed items. .
      Exr: my son Joseph Kirby & my brother Henry B.Kirby., , WD 30 August 1781 signed Richard Kearby Wit: Theo. Carter, Thomas Harrion {sic) , Thomas Lipscomb, William Boyd, Wi1liam Mayes
      WP 21 February 1782. Presented ,py .Joseph Kerby .& Henry Baker Kerby Exr. & proved by 3 wit. O.R.
      Sec: Mead Anderson & John Anderson (wife's family)
      Carolyn Graves Carter, d/o William George 'Buck' Carter and Elizabeth Patience Turner, married Benjamin W. Kirby 28 Nov 1859 Halifax County, Virginia (MB3/13): Benjamin's Sister, Nancy Graves Kirby, married Carolyn's brother, William G. Carter, Jr. (here again two brother's marry two sisters)
      Nancy Graves Kirby is the d/o Meades Anderson Kirby (1800-), and Sallie C Word (1803-)
      Children of Meades and Sallie Kirby;
      Elizabeth Kirby (-)
      Jeremiah Kerby (1824-)
      Martha R Kirby (1831-)
      Mary Kirby (1833-)
      Sarah T Kirby (1834-)
      Ben W Kirby (1839-1910)
      Frances H Kirby (1843-)

    2. [S61] United States Census, 1870 Virginia Halifax Co., Black Walnut.
      Sarah Kirby 67, Mary 40, Martha Carter 38, Nannie Carter 25 Charles Dixon 24 Farm Labour, Sallie 20 Keeping House
      This is the Household of Meades Anderson Kirby and Sarah 'Sally' Word.

    3. [S160] Correspondence, George Kirby.
      Description: What Happened to Turner Carter

      the Kirby family lore has it that Jeremiah Kirby shot his brother-in-law - turner carter.
      Jeremiah then fled to Missouri.
      Jeremiah was the son of Meades Anderson Kirby and Sallie C. Kirby and brother to Martha Kirby Carter.
      Turner Carter married Martha R. Kirby 8/6/1849 bonded by Sally Kirby and Carter. Turner married Martha K. Kirby 8/7/1847
      Turner was killed by the gun shot. Somewhere I had a letter from another Kirby describing the altercation. I'll have to look around the house for it.
      Jerimiah (Jerry) Kirby fled to Saline County Missouri after 11/22/1856 according to my dad's notes. His age is listed as 26 in the 1850 census so he was born around 1824.
      I remember my dad telling me that Jerimiah was hidden in a trunk after the shooting by Richard Kirby who was the sheriff in Pittsylvania County.

      Just found the letter from Eva Kirby Cresp relating to Jerimiah Kirby. In the early 70's my father's sister, Clara Francis Cobb, and I went to visit an elderly cousin, Caroline Carter. During this visit, cousin Caroline told us that she had once received a visit from a woman from Missouri that had come to N.C. in search of information about her grand farther or great grandfather. He was Jeremiah Kirby.
      The story as it was told. Jerry had a sister who married a pretty good guy until he started drinking and then he became violent. He had unmercifully beaten his wife (Jerry's sister) many times very badly and during one of these times of drinking, she ran to her brother's home badly blody and clothes torn from her body. When the husband [Turner] arrived at Jerry's home, he demanded his wife to be sent out to him. Refusing to do so until he sobered up. He then went out back to Jerry's wood pile and removed the axe. He then began to break the door in so Jerry shot in self defense to save himself and his sister? He felt that he would be hung for murder so he left home. He was last seen riding away on his horse with his little dog running along beside the horse and was never heard from again until this granddaughter came in search for geneology and info on her grandfather's family.
      Jerry died of old age in Kansas City Missouri. He had worked as a jailer in Kansas City Missouri. He had married and had a family there.

      I found the following information in the LDS library but didn't record the reference
      Jerry married Eliza Jane Higgins on 11/20/1866
      Jerry is listed as having two daughers Alice B. Kirby 9/10/1874 and Virginia Lee Kirby 9/10/1874 in St. Peters, Marshall Missouri.
      I was told he became a sheriff in Missouri. He and his daughters came back to visit Virginia sometime after my grandfather George Kirby was born.

      But why did he flee to Missouri?
      Well Meades Anderson Kirby (his father) brother Benjamin Kirby was living in Missouri.

      Meades married Sally Word on 12/22/1823 and his brother Benjamin had previously married Sally's sister Elizabeth Word on 11/4/1822.
      Brothers marrying sisters seems to be a common occurance in the 1700's and 1800's in the Kirby family.
      These marriages are found in the Halifax County's marriage records.
      Elizabeth and Sally's father William Word was commissioned by James Monroe and/or James Madison to build bridges in Halifax County, Va.

      My dad's notes has Benjamin and Elizabeth living in Calloway County Missouri in 1849 but don't know when they went - between 1822 and 1849. Calloway county is the adjoining county to Saline County.
      In the 1850 census of Calloway county Elizabeth Kirby 56 born in Va Joesph W. Kirby 26 born in Va Jno(?) Kirby 16 born in Va Caroline Kirby 14 born in Va Ann W. Richardson 23 born in Va
      Ann E. Richardson 3 born in Mo.
      gckirby3@gmail.com

    4. [S46] Marriage Record/Certificate.
      Bondsman, Richard Kirby